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Europeanization and multi-level governance: Empirical findings and conceptual challenges

Bache, Ian - ARENA - 2008

multi-level governance within member states and, if so, of what type(s), and through what processes. The empirical focus is …-level governance in the period of EU membership. The British case is analyzed in relation to developments across the EU. Thus, the main … purpose is to establish whether EU cohesion policy has promoted multi-level governance in Britain and other member states and …

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Who Consults? Expert Groups in the European Union

Gornitzka, Åse; Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2007

The EU is frequently understood as a special kind of governance system characterized by its strong degree of … national and subnational levels, as well as organized non-state interests. Nowhere is this kind of multi-level governance as …-established consultative system? We observe a proliferation over time and across sectors of this mode of governance. The use of Expert group …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040298

Europeanization of Sea-Level Bureaucrats. A Case of Ship Inspectors’ Training

Gulbrandsen, Christer - ARENA - 2010

hitherto under-researched mechanisms of implementation and compliance in European governance. We find evidence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611116

Higher Education as a Form of European Integration: How Novel is the Bologna Process?

Corbett, Anne - ARENA - 2006

This paper argues that at a time in which higher education has become central to the concerns of EU institutions as well as national governments, it is helpful to understand current policy initiatives - both the spin offs from the EU’s Lisbon strategy and the intergovernmental Bologna Process...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040210

Who are the experts? The informational basis of EU decision-making

Gornitzka, Åse; Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2008

Who provides the European Union with information? Are these sources of information biased? Who are excluded and who are included? What can the informational bias tell us about decision making in the European Union? The paper examines patterns of participation in the large and organized expert...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040242

European Integration Since the 1990s: Member States and the European Commission

Kassim, Hussein; Menon, Anand - ARENA - 2004

at the centre of debates about the European Union. In the 1990s, the new institutionalism and the multi-level governance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040264

The Nordic Countries and the EU: How European Integration Integrates and Disintegrates States Domestically

Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2003

This chapter covers the Nordic member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden, as well as the “associated” countries Norway and Iceland, although the latter are not formal members of the EU. It follows the general template by presenting the history and politics of the European issue in these...

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Democratic government, institutional autonomy and the dynamics of change

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2009

Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...

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Maybe it is time to rediscover bureaucracy?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2005

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards market- or network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that...

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Elements of a sociology of European integration

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008

How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040207